I’m hosting again this week! Tune in!

Steph is one of the best podcast showrunners and senior producers I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with. Learned a ton from her. Do not sleep on hiring her. She makes everything sound better & cares deeply about the wellbeing of the folks she works with

After 9 years working for VICE News and Motherboard, I've been laid off.

Working with the wonderful people at Motherboard was the honor of my life. Hosting CYBER was a joy. I've got two half-finished stories that need placing and I'm looking forward looking for the next thing

Taylor: “gender is a social construct”
Chaya: “well gender is actually made up.”
Taylor: “exactly!”

😂🙌🏽

Perfect lil interview snippet. Thank you TaylorLorenz.Substack.com

Climate change is drying out the Panama Canal and making it more expensive and time consuming to ship goods. Noel King interviewed reporter Mie Hoejris Dahl and econ professor Sharat Ganapati for the latest on the canal.

Produced by Haleema Shah and me.

For us 'the story did not “come as a surprise” as abuse cases had happened regularly in the region over many years. With the arrival of protected areas during colonial times many of the locals have already been evicted'. theguardian.com/world/2024/jan…

I wrote about something that's puzzled me for a while. Why don't more homeowners who don't want to give up their low interest rate just ... rent? theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Need to catch up with some science news?

Last Friday Maggie Koerth
joined guest host Arielle Duhaime-Ross to talk about a canister with asteroid samples, chimpanzees catching human colds, advances toward a cure for autoimmune disorders, and honeybee crimes.

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I’m really excited to be doing the news on Science Friday tomorrow with Arielle Duhaime-Ross in the guest host chair! Hopefully, the jokes I write to make Ira Flatow laugh will work on them, too.

It's time for #SciFri 📻

We kick off with Maggie Koerth and guest host Arielle Duhaime-Ross talking about NASA opening a canister containing asteroid samples and other top science news of the week.

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Tune into Science Friday right now. I’m hosting! We’ve got Ed Yong is not here Maggie Koerth and a bunch of great stories including an update on the respiratory illness affecting dogs, a story about an animated tv show for deaf children, and a conversation with the founder of the Irth

This is gonna be fun! join us tomorrow (Tuesday!)

This is bleak! I don’t blame anyone trying to think outside the box to treat their long COVID. Many treatments recommended by doctors come from anecdotal evidence from other patients. But shady companies are taking advantage medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

Some personal news, as they say:
I’ve been a senior writer at WIRED since 2020 (and part-time for 3 years before that), leading Covid coverage and writing about public health, AMR, fungi, food and ag, med history and health policy.
I was laid off Monday alongside ~20 colleagues.